Vancouver

Welcome to VANDUG!

The Vancouver Drupal Users Group is the local meeting place for Greater Vancouver people interested in Drupal. We were formerly known as the Vancouver League of Drupalers, but that's a long story. We generally meet once a month (typically the 4th Thursday) on a variety of topics, both technical and non-technical. There is no cost to join the group or attend our monthly meetings.

We have a sister group in the Lower Mainland, the Surrey Drupal Users Group that meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month. Many people are members of both groups.

Heard about Component Driven Design, but aren't really sure what the big deal is? This talk is for you! Developers and Themers alike can benefit from using components in their workflow. Much like how Drupal uses modules to separate and reuse distinct code patterns, components allow us to do something similar for the front-end. Component Driven Theming is Component Drive Design meets Drupal!

Twitter and IRC

Just another PSA here, to let everyone know there's now a Twitter account set up if you want to follow for meetup reminders, etc. at http://twitter.com/vandug. The group admins all have access to the password, and if one of us gets fancy, we'll set up some kind of hashtag retweeter system.

To wrap up another successful VanDUG season, we invite you to join us for an evening of hacking, networking, and socializing with your fellow Vancouver Drupalers. Bring your laptop, ideas, and good vibes over to The Jibe on June 26th, 2014 at 5:30pm.

Beer & drinks will be provided as well as light snacks. Quantities limited. If you'd like to bring your own food or drinks, feel free to!

The perfect workflow for Drupal website development has proved as elusive as the proverbial Grail. Ideally, a manageable workflow would be to have as much code-driven development as possible. While Drupal 8 Configuration Management Initiative will get us closer to that ideal than ever before, it won’t be perfect and we will still have to develop and maintain Drupal 7 websites for a few more years. Much of the latest efforts and discussion around Drupal development workflow has focused on code-driven strategies. Despite all the advancements, database configuration syncing still remains painful and error- prone. Features do not capture all the database configuration work and it can be somewhat time-consuming both to featurize in a proper modularized fashion and replicate the remainder.